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CHAPTER 9Metahuman: Unleashing the Infinite Potential of Humans

“I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man: It is we.”

KONRAD LORENZ1973 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine(1903–1989)

At the end of Chapter 8, we have seen that in the new sustainable era in human history, human development will consist of actions that use the very best of biomimicry as well as the mutually beneficial symbiosis between digitalization and biologization. To unleash the full potential of biologization for the purpose of human development, it is helpful to better understand the biological uniqueness of humans and their possible evolution into future meta‐humans with infinite capabilities.

9.1 Becoming Human: The Biological Uniqueness of Humans

Recently, in his award‐winning book “Becoming Human,” [1] proposed a theory of biological human uniqueness and how we develop the qualities that make us human and become such a distinctive species. In the following, we summarize his major findings from nearly three decades of experimental work with humans and their closest primate relatives.

9.1.1 Social Cognition

Mature human thinking is structured by the basic distinction, recognized since the ancient Greeks, between subjective and objective (or appearance and reality, belief and truth, opinion and fact). The distinction derives from the insight that a single individual's subjective perspective on a situation at any given moment may or may not match with the objective ...